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Hoax calls drove India-Pak on the brink of war
- Farzand Ahmed -
A hoax call by a militant from behind Pakistan’s Hyderabad jail had brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war in the aftermath of 26/11, widely-read daily Dawn revealed. The report, carried by the paper on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people had lost their lives, quoted investigators to say “Omar Saeed Sheikh, a detained Pakistani militant, had made hoax calls to President Asif Ali Zardari and the Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in a bid to heighten Pakistan-India tensions after last year’s terrorist attacks on Mumbai”.
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